African Diaspora

Essay by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, specially prepared for presentation at the Inaugural Lecture of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. The article is the account of a personal and intellectual journey from southern Africa to the global North, from African history to diaspora studies, how this fascinating voyage has framed and enriched my scholarship and social engagements. [Full Text Article, html]

Vortrag von Maisha Eggers im Rahmen des AfricAvenir Dialogforums am 04. Juli 2007 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Dr. Eggers erörtert
die „gläsernen Decken“, an die afrikanische WissenschaftlerInnen in Deutschland im Wissenschaftsbetrieb stoßen, beim Versuch, weiter Karriere zu machen.

La Diaspora a connu depuis la manifestation du 11 janvier 2008 contre les Accords de Partenariat Economiques (APE) à Bruxelles, une brutale accélération dans le processus de son organisation. Sékou Diabaté plaide ici pour une organisation unitaire, démocratique et indépendante de la 6eme région de l’Afrique. [Pambazuka]

Thema des ersten e-journals von AfricAvenir International e.V. ist die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der kolonialen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart Deutschlands und Europas und dessen Fort- und Einschreibung in die gesellschaftliche und politische Gegenwart. (more…)

L’ensemble d’îles nommé aujourd’hui Caraïbes provient d’un mélange de population. Indigènes, Européens, Africains ou encore métis, ont participé souvent dans le sang et la révolte, à la création d’Etats libre et à l’émancipation des hommes et des femmes. [Grioo]

Les 11 et 12 septembre 2007 à Paris, le Comité d’Organisation de la Conférence Consultative Régionale Union Africaine-Diaspora Africaine en Europe se réunissait sous la présidence de l’ambassade et du gouvernement d’Afrique du Sud. [Afrikara]

Wangui wa Goro writes that to talk of the African Renaissance when Africans go without food and die unnecessarily of curable diseases, compels us to ask ourselves who is this renaissance intended for. [Full Text Article, html]

by Ali A. Mazrui. Third Lecture, Dubois Centre, Ghana. Our basic thesis in this presentation is that Africa has been central in causing globalization, but marginal in controlling globalization. [Full Text Article, html]

Regard rétrospectif sur l’immigration afro-américaine et africaine au cours du 20e siècle en France et aux Etats-Unis. Et comment au 21e siècle, la France terre d’asile est devenue terre d’exclusion. Par Ch. Didier Gondola, Indiana University. [Africultures]

Et si la nouvelle loi sur l’immigration de Nicolas Sarkozy ne révélait autre chose qu’un état d’esprit esclavagiste? Peut-on choisir ses immigrés comme jadis les maîtres blancs choisissaient leurs esclaves? Par Boubacar Boris Diop. [Africultures]

By Paul Zeleza: The French uprising is not only a wake up call to France but to the whole of Europe where the populations of African and Asian Europeans will increase regardless of efforts to create “fortress” Europe. [Full text Article]

By Awa Ba. Paper Prepared for CODESRIA’s 10TH General Assembly on “Africa in the New Millennium”, Kampala, Uganda, 8-12 December 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

Par Blaise-Jacques NKENE. 10eme Assemblée Générale du CODESRIA du 8 au 12 décembre 2002
Kampala/Ouganda. [Full Text Article, html]

By Francis Nebsitt Njubi. Paper Prepared for CODESRIA’s 10TH General Assembly on “Africa in the New Millennium”, Kampala, Uganda, 8-12 December 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

By Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Essay specially written for the 10th CODESRIA General Assembly, Kampala, Uganda, December 8-12, 2002. © Draft. Not to be quoted without the explicit permission of the author. [Full Text Article]

By Cassandra Veney, Ph.D. Paper prepared for the 10th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Kampala, Uganda, December 8-12, 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

By Nkiru Nzegwu. Paper Prepared for CODESRIA’s 10TH General Assembly on “Africa in the New Millennium”, Kampala, Uganda, 8-12 December 2002. [Full Text Article, html]

Joachim Emmanuel Goma Thethet, Département d’Histoire, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, (Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville). CODESRIA, 10ème Assemblée Générale, L’Afrique dans le nouveau millénaire. [Full Text Article]

Jalani Niaah, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies. Prepared for the 10th General Assembly of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, 8-12 December, 2002 at the Nile International Conference Centre, Kampala, Uganda. [Full Text Article]

By Elikia M’Bokolo. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora, African Union, from 7 to 9 October 2004, Dakar, Senegal. [Full Text Article, pdf, fr, 80 kb]

By Tony Martin. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora, African Union, from 7 to 9 October 2004, Dakar, Senegal. [Full Text Article, pdf, fr, 80 kb]

By Mamadou Diouf. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora, African Union, from 7 to 9 October 2004, Dakar, Senegal. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Thandika Mkandawire. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora, African Union, from 7 to 9 October 2004, Dakar, Senegal. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Frederick W. Hickling, M.D. Jamaica. Proceedings from the Meetings Held, November 17 - 21, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts. [Full Text Article, pdf]

By Molefi Kete asante. Paper presented at the 1st Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora, African Union, from 7 to 9 October 2004, Dakar, Senegal. [Full Text Article, pdf]